Card record



July 13 1926. 1,592,549-

c. w. WALL, JR I CARD RECORD Filed March 17 1923 7 ATTORNEYS Patented July 13, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

CHARLES w. W'ALL, Jis., o r RIVERSIDE, commences, ASSIGNOR T0 RAND KARDEX E rim; or TONAWANDA, NEW YORK.

CARD RECORD.

Application filed itarcn 17, 1923. Serial No. 625,687.

My present invention relz-itesto arrangements for recording information on cards, such as index caids and. the like, and particularly to means for so recordii'ig such in 'forn'iation that the user of the cards may tell readily at a glance in which of a plurality of groups, the party to Whom the card re l'ates is included.

My invention Will be best understood from the following description andtheannexed drawing", in Which Fig. 1 shows a knoi'v'n form of index cttrd supo 'twith the index card in place thereon an with my invention applied thereto; Fig. is an enurged section on the line 2'2 of Fig. 1, locking in the direction of the arrows; Fig. 3 is another form of index card with my invention applied thereto, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged side view, partly in section, on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Like reference charzicters indicate like parts in the several views. 1 In the illustrative arrangement shown in 1 and 2, '10 is a support card which may be hinged along the line 11. The support card 10 is provided at the bottom With a celluloid clip 12 fastened at either end of the support card 10 by staples 13, so as to provide a space between the face of the support card 10 and the front of the celluloid clip 12 into which the lower edge of the index card 14. maybe slipped, the space bet ween the celluloid clip 12 and the face of the card 10 being such as to hold the index card H- 'frictionally in position. In the form illustrated in Fig". 1, the index card is arranged as it might be used, for instance, by :1 bank to show with which departments of the bank, the given customer to whom the card relates, may be doing business. In such a form, the departments may be indicated in the space tit-the lower right-hand portion of the index card l l, as shown in Fig. 1, and each department may conveniently be given a number, as is also shown in the figure,

In using my invention, the index card will be perforated at the points where it is desired to show the department or departments with which the customer is dei-nf'; business, and such perforation my be conveniently a relatively small circle, such as is shown at 15. In order, however, that the user of the card may be able to tell at a glance What departments are indicated, I place behind the information area, which is to be punched to convey the necessary information, a surface carrying a color wl'ii'ch contrasts with the color of the index card, so that when the perforation in the index card is placed over this surface, it has the eitect or a contrasting spot of color placed directly on the card itself; For instance, if the index card, is yellow, this colored surface behind it may be made red, in which case, it is Obvious that the contrast will be very great Inc the perforation made prominent accordingly. Morebrer, by using the punch infaii-kor fperiteration, it isobvious thatthe 'signa lVor information indicator is not displaceable from its proper position, as has resulted from the use of separate colored tabs which have been inserted loosely between the index card and the celluloid clip; hen this lastnained construction has been used, itis obvioiis that if for any reason, the index card is removed from its support, the position of the colored tabs is lost. v r

It will be understood that the colored surface which I locate behind the information conveying area may be the surface of the support card itself, and, if desired, the contrusting color may be obtained by making the entire support card 10 of the desired color, but preferably this support card is made of some neutral color and the contrusting color applied thereto only in the portion that is to come behind the area \YlllCil is to be punched. Thus, for instance, in the form shown in Fig. 1, it will he surticient it it colored strip were printed on the support card lehin'd the lower if'ig'ht-l'iand portion such card which would come he hind the portions to be punchechus indicated in Fig. 1.

YVhen, in in the illustrative case, the customer discontinues doing business with a given department, it is necessary to dispose ofthe punch mark previously applied to his card, and this end may be conveniently accomplished by punching out a circular punch mark 15, With a suare punch marlgas at 16. This would indicate to the user that the cust'o'mer, to whom the index card of Fig. 1 relates, is no longer doing business with the bond department but did formerly do business with that department.

hen still later the customer again resumes doing business with, say, the bond department, it is necessary to restore the square perforation 16 of Fig. 1, to a round perfoiation like 15. This may be accomplished in the manner sho vn in connection with department 1 which is supposed to show a case where the customer began doing business with that department, then ceased, and has again begun business. To produce the round hole like 15 after the card has been punched with a square hole, as at 16, I provide a strip 17 of adhesive material having a round hole like 15, to be pasted over the square hole 16, Since the space allotted for each department is relatively small, I preferably make the strip 17 long enough to extend over a plurality of departments and punch the strip so that it will have a plurality of circular holes, as shown in Fig. 1. here the circular holes in the strip 17 come over a portion of the card which has not been perforated, these round holes will permit the number of the department to show through and will not afiect the showing as to such departments. On the other hand, where the card has been perforated with a square hole, the round hole of the strip 17 will be substituted for such square hole and the length of the strip 17 will be such as to make it easily applied to the index card and to give suilicient hold thereon to keep it in place. The strip 17 may, of course, be made of some neutral color or substantially of the color of the index card 14 itself.

In the illustrative form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, an index card 18 has an information conveying area at its lower right-hand end similar to that of the card 1d of Fig. 1,

but in this case the index card 18 is to be used without a support. In order to get the contrasting color through the perforation or perforations 19, a strip 20 may be glued at its upper edge to the back of the card 18, the surface of the strip 20 having a color contrasting with that of the card 18. By gluing the strip 20 at its upper edge only, it may be bent so as to permit the card 18 to be punched without perforating the strip 20. The method of perforation and of restoring the original size of opening may be the same on the form of card shown in Fig. 3 as that shown in Fig. 1.

It will be understood that the arrangements which I have shown are merely illustrative and that my invention may be applied to information cards of any character and that the index cards which I have described are merely for purposes of illustration.

lVhile in the specification and the appended claims I have used the term card to describe the informationcarrying sheet, it will be understood that by that term I in clude any sheet, no matter what its thickness may be, on which the information is recorded.

I claim:

1.- In a device of the class described, a readily perforated card adapted to receive writing thereon, said card being provided with delimited hole spaces which when perforated at determined points indicate information to be recorded on the card, and a member having a surface of a color contrasting with that of the card and adapted to be positioned and held at the back of the card with the colored surface back of the area to be perforated.

2. In a device of the class described, a readily perforated card adapted to receive writing thereon, said card being provided with delimited hole spaces which when perforated at determined points indicate information to be recorded on the card, and a member having a surface of a color contrasting with that of the card, said member being normally positioned with the colored surface behind the area to be perforated and removable therefrom to permit the card to be perforated without perforating said memher.

3. In a device of the class described, a readily perforated card adapted to receive writing thereon, said card being provided with delimited hole spaces which when perforated at determined points indicate i11- formation to be recorded on the card, and a support for the card having means to attach the card thereto, said support having a surface of a color contrasting with that of the card and located behind the area to be perforated when the card is connected to the support.

4. In a device of the class described, a readily perforated card adapted to receive writing thereon, said card being provided at its lower edge with delimited hole spaces which when perforated at determined points indicate information to be recorded on the card, a support for the card having a surface of a color contrasting with that of the card, and means to locate the card on the support and connect it therewith, with the area to be perforated above the colored surface.

5. In combination, a readily perforated card adapted to receive writing thereon, said card being provided with a series of delimited uniformly spaced hole areas which when perforated indicate information to be recorded on the card, and a correction device attached to said card and extending over a plurality of said hole areas, said correction device comprising a strip of adhesive fabric having a plurality of perforations of the same shape and size and positioned on said lit strip so that each perforation registers with one of said hole areas.

6. The method of recording information on an information card provided with delimited classification hole spaces, which method comprises punching the card at a selected point to indicate that the party to Whom the card refers belongs to a certain class, then later re-punching the card at the same point with a hole of a larger size and a different shape to indicate that the party is no longer in such class but Was formerly in such class.

7. The method of recording information 5 on an information card provided with delimited classification hole spaces, which method comprises punching the card at a selected point to indicate that the party to WhOIIl the card refers belongs to a certain class, then later re-punching the card at the same point with a hole of. a larger size and a different shape to indicate that the party is no longer in such class but was formerly in such class, and still later, pasting over the last hole a strip having a hole of the size and shape of the first hole to indicate that the party is again in the original class.

CHARLES W. WALL, JR. 

